A Million Mask March on Washington – Anonymous InSerbia News That's the mission statement of the “Million Mask March,” an event scheduled for November 5 in the nation's capital that's being arranged by affiliates of the hacktivism movement...

Anonymous. An image commonly associated with Anonymous. The "suit without a head" represents leaderless organization and anonymity. Individuals appearing in public as Anonymous, wearing Guy Fawkes masks.

Anonymous reached a global attention through their hacking: mainstream media have covered the episodes ambiguously, sometimes falling into sensationalism, without giving information about the activist spirit of Anonymous. These kinds of reports, mainly produced by corporate media, usually define Anonymous as “criminals” who aim at creating chaos on the web and ruining people’s lives.

The video explains the reasons why an individual should share the feelings of Anonymous and contribute to change the system. As stated in the video, Anonymous is not a group, nor a membership, but an idea.

The Drum 13 from Hacktivist Collective Anonymous face Federal Indictments The Drum The Internet collective Anonymous has become synonymous with Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks, which occur when a collective of computer hackers bombard...

After the publication of the 2013 Threats Predictions from McAfee Labs, I have received many queries regarding our expectation of a possible slowdown in Anonymous activity this year. Some readers agreed, while ...

Why this blog and how I work

Public Interest: This blog aims at explaining the media controversy of Anonymous for the public interest. My audience should be anyone who wants to have a clearer idea about who Anonymous are, what they do and why.

Method: As a news curator, I collect information from different media platforms, such as online newspaper articles, YouTube videos, blogs (etc.), in order to provide a diverse and complete view on the issue.

Transparency: When I convey information, I cite my sources and I link them, so that the reader can check them and find more information about Anonymous.

Objectivity: I offer an objective perspective about the media controversy, filtering information from both Anonymous themselves and other credible sources.

Diversity: Strongly connected with the value of objectivity, I provide information from different media platforms, like blogs, online articles, YouTube and TV news.

Further learning: Posting my sources, I encourage my audience to go deeper in the topic, inviting it to watch documentaries, videos on YouTube and explore the world of Anonymous.

Dialogue: I invite my readers to leave comments and critiques, in order to create a dialogue.

Everytime Anonymous start and “operation”, they also create tags, which users can follow, to get instant information about the online and offline protests. Again, Anonymous don’t have an official account, but different ones. One of them is @YourAnonNews. When Anonymous upload videos on YouTube or posts blogs about a specific operation, like the recent Operation Israel, they usually show the tag to follow (#Operation Israel). This way other Anons or simply citizens can get instant information about their actions.

On December 2010, Anonymous attacked corporations and banks like Amazon, PayPal, MasterCard and Visa with DDoS attacks, as they stopped accepting donations for WikiLeaks. This article by the Guardian explains the episode, including the opinion of some Anons.

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